Mere Orthodoxy

We are a close-knit team of young Christians who have dedicated the last 15 years to exploring the importance of language and detail in online discussions, all while figuring out how to express our faith in the public sphere. From arts and films to literature, politics, sexuality, and beyond, we believe the Gospel offers valuable insights into every aspect of life, and we see it as genuinely good news. Our inspiration comes from C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, two influential Christian thinkers from the twentieth century. One authored "Mere Christianity," and the other wrote "Orthodoxy." We admire their work so much that we even combined their names as a nod to their legacy. Their insights were not merely theoretical; they were deeply connected to the issues and challenges facing England during their era. Their goal was to showcase how a traditional, faith-centered approach to Christianity could serve as a compelling alternative to the popular ideologies of their time. And they managed to convey these ideas through poetry and children's tales, making their messages accessible and engaging.

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The Shepherd and the Duck Woman

6 days ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

James Rebanks. The Place of Tides. Mariner Books, 2025. $28.99, 304 pp. Only 1,200 people live today in the Vega archipelago, a group of rocky islands in northern Norway on the 66th parallel, the southern boundary of the Arctic Circle. Over a millennium ago there, enterprising women cared for eider ducks each spring.
The Babies Money Can Buy

1 week ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

If you’re wondering how much two healthy babies, lab-conceived and gestated by surrogates, will set you back in this economy, the bill is $120,000 in Mexico. I know, that does sound rather high. But it’s really quite a bargain—after all, it is over double that stateside. Although you could just take out a loan. Simply add one more payment to your regular monthly bills—you know, don’t forget to pay your mortgage, water, gas, baby, car, electric. Shocked?
All the Things We Do Not Know

2 weeks ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

Selena Wisnom. The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World. University of Chicago Press, 2025. $30.00, 400 pp. It is the dead of night, but the king cannot sleep. At last, tired of tossing and turning, he requests that a book be brought and read to him—the chronicle of his own rule. Listening to it does put him to sleep, although not before offering some productive food for thought.
Walking Faithfully Through Deconstruction: Interview with Ian Harber

2 weeks ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

In the conclusion to his new book, Walking Faithfully Through Deconstruction: How to Be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith (IVP, 2025), Ian Harber powerfully and beautifully reflects: “No matter what doubts, sins, and sufferings come our way, Jesus is inviting us to come to him.
Pioneers Against Postliberalism

3 weeks ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Michael Lucchese

In recent years, American conservatives seem obsessed with lamentation. Intellectual magazines and other outposts of conservative intellectualism have promoted several narratives of national decline which lift up a mythic American past to contrast with a supposedly dreary American present. But scratching beneath the surface, there is nothing particularly innovative about concerns for American deracination such as those expressed by Notre Dame political theorist Patrick Deneen.
Translating Homer in the 21st Century

1 month ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

Homer, The Odyssey. Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn. University of Chicago Press, 2025. $39.00, 560 pp. In the fall semester of the year 2000, I took a seminar on Homer’s Iliad. The math was simple: the Iliad has 24 books, and the semester has a little over 12 weeks. Moving at the pace of two books per week much of the fall, we read the entire epic. In the original Greek. In a building located just steps away from the statue of Homer on the University of Virginia’s legendary Lawn.
Secularist Violence in Modern History: Interview with Thomas Albert Howard

1 month ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

In his new book, Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History (Yale University Press, 2025), historian Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard takes the readers on a tour of modern world history to investigate what happens as the world secularizes. Proponents of secularization and outright state atheism in places like the Soviet Union have been asking for a while: what has religion—and especially Christianity—ever done for this world?
Orphics in Our Midst

1 month ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Nadya Williams

This article was published in the Winter 2025 edition of our print Journal. To read for free online, please Subscribe. If you would like to receive future editions of the print Journal, become a Basic or Solidarity Member today. One winter day near Thessaloniki in 1962, two archaeologists excavating a fourth-century BC Macedonian nobleman’s tomb made a unique and extraordinary find: a papyrus roll.
The Institutional Roots of America’s Political Crisis

1 month ago | mereorthodoxy.com | John Shelton

This article was published in the Winter 2025 edition of our print Journal. To read for free online, please Subscribe. If you would like to receive future editions of the print Journal, become a Basic or Solidarity Member today. The course of American Christianity over the next thirty years—if not the rest of the twenty-first century—will be entirely downstream of James Davison Hunter.
The Case for Changing the Scorecard in Education

2 months ago | mereorthodoxy.com | Bob Thune

This article was published in the Winter 2025 edition of our print Journal. To read for free online, please Subscribe. If you would like to receive future editions of the print Journal, become a Basic or Solidarity Member today. Ivan Illich. Deschooling Society. Marion Boyers Publishers: London, 2000. pp. 150. The All-In Podcast routinely sits atop the charts as the top-rated technology podcast in the world.